paulnelligan's comments

I'm not from the States. From Europe and watching in disbelief. My point was that supporting a sexist, xenophobic candidate is to condone his sexism and xenophobia. To tolerate this for some political or personal agenda is to be intolerant.

It seems to be a typical postmodern viewpoint that every idea is equally valid. But even if you're not "racist, sexist, xenophobic, or accepting sexual assault", if you, as a reasonably minded individual, back Trump, you're condoning all of these things, which is really just as bad ... Not everybody's idea is valid!

Not withstanding the upshot, I'm always wondering about the ill effect of technology on society. This is a painful example. Take it easy everyone!

I can personally vouch for Kevin and his team's work here in Berlin. It has already improved my quality of life!

OR, you could just get off your ass and build it yourself ... monetary cost: $0, time cost: 6 months, benefit: you now have an extra skillset and the ability to execute your ideas

Building a car by oneself is unrealistic, building an app is completely feasible.

No offence, but it's a bit rubbish. How this got 174 upvotes is beyond me.

Anyway, Here's my weekend project on the SC api, which we won the Amsterdam Music Hack day SC api prize with:

http://soundfluence.com

utter rubbish. I know lots of black people who live happy lives in Berlin.

Dude, get a history book.

Berlin is a FANTASTIC city to bootstrap your project ...

reasons: 1. cheap cost of living, 2. availability of relatively well paid contract work, 3. A very supportive startup / creative community who are willing to share info and resources, 4. A very smart and creative demographic, 5. wonderful bars, clubs, and restaurants, 6. German people are actually a decent bunch :)

disadvantages: 1. over-strict regulations in dealing with Banking and Regulatory bodies (whatever you do, do NOT sign up for a postbank a/c), 2. Less than ideal weather.

Overall a win I think, which is why I continue to call Berlin my home.

This is exactly why SOPA / ACTA et al must be stopped.

If this happened me, in 2012, I would go straight onto kickstarter to get donations for the legal fees and fight these dickheads tooth and nail.

Let this be a lesson: never write a letter to a co-founder while drunk or high!!

I would argue that once you dismiss ads and scroll down the page that content is entirely readable. The internet has given us an expectation that everything should be free and immediate, and we can't tolerate anything less.

In the old days you paid for a newspaper or magazine with money, now you pay for it with advertising (or you pay money to remove the advertising) - nothing new there, nothing surprising, good content is still good content, and the shit is still there in abundance also ...

"I give Facebook five years before it shares the fate of MySpace. I give Google ten years before it becomes a Yahoo -- still around but not a leading light, by any means."

Personally, I find that very hard to envision.

For posterity sake, I'd better answer my own questions:

- yes, unfortunately we're no longer building for the web, we're building for the facebook and google platforms, and it pisses me off no end, because more innovation is required. I only hope Google open up their API completely so that developers like me can build some cool shit on their platform

- energy crisis, I have no clue. But I really hope so. Climate crisis, same.

- Flying cars, seriously! http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/109522/20110207/flying-cars-... ... will probably never 'take off' though.

- Quantum Computers. I can only wildly imagine some crazy mind-reading computer who has nothing but benevolence and love for me so that I may be hooked up to it's matrix and suck on it's glorious god-like nipple. Google be thy name. Don't bloody wake me up!

There's no point in saying that if he was starting facebook knowing what he knows now, he would do things differently ...

The reason he knows what he knows now is BECAUSE he started facebook!

This is awesome, thanks!

I just emailed everyone who signed up in the past week using a similar template ...

Obviously I should have been doing this all along, But I'm a first-time founder, I need to be reminded ...

Ya - but they weren't 'invented' by an 11 year old with a crazy younger sister and a belief in his ability to conquer the world that only a preteen can have ...

That's marketing you can't buy ...

I actually WAS that guy, but I couldn't find my technical co-founder - so I just became a technical founder ... took me a few years, but I'm there now ;)

Thanks, I really enjoyed this - gives great insight into the brilliance of the google brain, and it's flaws i.e. Google's misunderstanding of normal serfs that just 'use the internet' ...